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Compassionate prayers, insults, and poorly disguised threats. A new audio recording shows how far Donald Trump is willing to go to undermine American democracy, writes Morten Strand.
IN THE FOG: Donald Trump will soon have even more time to play golf. Photo: AP / NTB
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Be one The macho-inspired president is Donald Trump, a pathetic figure. The Washington Post revelation Sunday of a phone call from the White House to Georgia State President Brad Raffensperger shows once again that Trump is willing to carry out a coup to cancel the election result he lost. During the phone call, in which several of Trump’s key advisers were present, Trump begs his partner Raffensperger to help him rally enough votes to win the state. And it threatens possible legal action if Raffensperger does not comply with the president’s request.
In the hour-long conversation, Trump tells Raffensperger:
– All I want is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state. There’s nothing wrong with saying, you know, hmm, that you’ve counted the votes again.
In Trump, Although no less than three stories and the rejection of a series of Trump trials establish the opposite, that Trump lost in Georgia. Raffensperger, who is himself a Republican and ally of Trump’s party, is standing firm, despite his president begging him to do something illegal, namely conjuring votes that do not exist or undermining votes that have been repeatedly confirmed as cast. legally. To this, Raffensperger replied:
– Well, Mr President, the challenge you have is that your data is incorrect.
Then ran for President Trump, who called Raffensperger a “kid”, that he was “dishonest or incompetent.” Before the 45th president of the United States concluded that Raffensperger was “a fool.”
The president then pressured the “fool” to turn the world upside down, as he usually does, and claim that Raffeneperger knows there has been electoral fraud, in favor of incoming President Joe Biden. A claim that several courts have ruled is incorrect. Trump says:
– You know it’s a crime. And you know you can’t let that happen. It is too great a risk. That is a great risk.
On Trump. And if we need more proof that Trump is actually stepping into the chair to steal an election, unduly pressuring a state leader, to set the stage for an undemocratic coup, then the final test is now before us. In the form of audio recordings from The Washington Post, recordings that have also been confirmed by the president himself.
Donald Trump is destroying not only the best moment of democracy, which distinguishes it from other forms of government, the peaceful transfer of power from one regime to another. Apparently he is guilty of a crime. Attorneys say the audio recording is opened for both federal and state lawsuits when Trump is out of the White House. They talk about the “smoking gun” against Trump, the gunpowder smoke from the gun that proves the crime has been committed, and can be proven.
Wednesday 6th January Congress will ultimately determine the election result in which Biden received 306 votes, up from 232 for Trump. The envelopes with the official result, which have been previously approved by each state, will be opened and proclaimed before they are approved by both houses of Congress. What’s new is that 12 Republican senators will demand a debate on the results in states with which Trump, without any evidence, believes he has been misled. A debate will not change the outcome, but it will help cast doubt on the legitimacy of the elections. It joins the ranks of Trump’s “alternative facts,” that is, deliberate lies to divert the political landscape from real reality and help create chaos.
Today was He also published a sensational letter from former defense ministers, warning that Trump could use defense to quell unrest and provide a pretext for a state of emergency, and the Trump administration continued. The scenario is that armed neo-Nazis who support Trump, such as the Proud Boys, provoke violence on the streets of major cities, which could give Trump a pretext to deploy federal troops to “restore order.” The scenario is like a bad dream, but it is no more a dream that the last ten defense ministers find it too good to warn against becoming a reality.
Congratulations on Citizen Trump
But will be seemingly too wild, even in the last days of Donald Trump. And in the meantime, we are waiting with growing enthusiasm for the incident when the president will finally, and perhaps too freely after Kjell Aukrust, be pulled back from the bird box.
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